Mother of Olympic gold medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock receives $250,000 food truck after Tokyo Games
By: Chris Bumbaca (MSN)
Cameron Davies has built mobile kitchens for Universities, Fast food franchises and Hell's Kitchen's Gordon Ramsey.
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Tamyra Mensah-Stock is not the type of person to slow down after reaching the top.
Hardly a week removed from dominating her way to gold in the women's 68kg freestyle wrestling, Mensah-Stock is already repaying those who helped her reach her dream - with some help.
According to local Houston, Texas, television station ABC 13, Mensah-Stock planned to use part of her Olympic winnings ($250,000) to buy a food truck for her mother, Shonda Wells. Mensah-Stock promised Wells a truck of her own five years ago while her mother sold BBQ out of a pit with two wheels.
Then Cameron Davies, the owner of Cruising Kitchens - a food-truck manufacturing company - heard of Mensah-Stock's plans to buy a $30,000 truck. Instead of donating a food truck with a similar price tag, Cruising Kitchens is gifting Wells a $250,000 truck with "all the bells and whistles," as Davies put it in a Zoom call with the family captured by ABC 13.
© Grace Hollars, USA TODAY Sports Tamyra Mensah-Stock (USA) celebrates after defeating Blessing Oborududu (NGR) in the women's freestyle 68kg final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games at Makuhari Messe Hall A.
"It's time for you to take care of her, because she's been taking care of you," Davies said to Mensah-Stock.
Davies said he quickly researched Mensah-Stock and "fell in love with the person she (is)."
"I've been wanting this for (Wells) for so long," Mensah-Stock said.
USA Wrestling has a reward program that gives wrestlers who win gold $250,000. That money includes the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee's program that awards $37,500 for gold.
The process of designing and building the truck will take more than three months, but it won't be long before "P'lickles Famous BBQ" will be serving up grub in the Houston area.
"Oh my God, I can't believe it," Wells said. "Thank you so much. This is a dream come true."
Mensah-Stock became the first Black woman to win a gold medal in wrestling when she defeated Nigeria's Blessing Oborududu 4-1 in the final.
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cool story, but I really wanted to see the food truck or a facsimile. how eff'd up is that?
An artists rendering...Haha
Here's the link to the builds that were on TV
an interesting concept in "Ghost Kitchens" ....
Torchy's Tacos Truck is awesome.
You can kind of see it here on Instagram. The real thing will take 3 months to build.
Great find SMAAB ! Thank Yew !
Yew'r welcome.
Kudos to the company.
That was cool.
That was a great thing for Cruising Kitchens to do
....I'm hungry...
Me, too. Gimme those tacos!!
Great seed S.P.! This is the kind of stuff we should be talking about. This girl is a role model; an individual who inspires others to have ambition and then to work hard to pursue their dreams.
There are a lot of lazy, stupid, dishonest and exploitative people on this planet but then there are the leaders who illustrate the good of our species.
Having a strong parent does not hurt either.
Kudos to her for winning the Gold; and she deserves all of the rewards that go with it. Glad to see she is taking care of those that supported her on her journey.
I know this is nitpicking; but I would like to see special and para Olympic athletes get the same reward for a gold as regular Olympians.
I know the regular Olympians are the ones that draw in the ratings and the money; but the special and para Olympians put in the hard work as well- and deserve to be rewarded the same. Besides, I watch more of those Olympics than I do of the regular Olympics.
Good news just for you!
That was in 2018 when the para's matched the normal Olympic scale
and is still true for most Olympians.
The Wrestlers have their own mega award program.
Thank you. I wasn't aware of that rule.
I was going by what the article said.
The $250,000 doesn't go to both?
The Olympic committee pays both $37,500.00
The USA Wrestling Federation paid an additional $250,000 for a total of $287,500.00
in addition to her winning a world title and earning another $50,000.00 in 2019.
Tamyra Mensah-Stock Will Receive a Large Cash Stipend for Winning the Olympics - Texas Wrestling (wrestlingtexas.com)
fun research !